Compatible Sites

Cookbo can import recipes from most recipe websites and food blogs, and from Instagram. Here’s what to expect from popular ones.

Works great

The title, photo, ingredients and steps all come through.

AllRecipes
BBC Good Food
Bon Appétit
Budget Bytes
Cookie and Kate
Delish
Epicurious
Food Network
Half Baked Harvest
Mexican Made Meatless
Minimalist Baker
NYT Cooking
Pinch of Yum
RecipeTin Eats
Serious Eats
Simply Recipes
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Tasty
The Pioneer Woman

…and most other food blogs.

Instagram posts and reels work too. Share straight from the Instagram app. It works best when the caption lists the ingredients and steps.

Works, with a catch

NYT Cooking subscriber recipes

Free recipes work. For subscriber recipes, sign in to NYT Cooking in Safari first, then share from there.

Food52

Ingredients sometimes come through with odd formatting.

Milk Street

Most recipes are for subscribers. Free previews bring in just the title and photo.

A pin links to the original recipe. Open that page and import it from there.

Some older food blogs

A few older blogs may come through with parts missing.

Not yet

TikTok and YouTube

The recipe is in the video rather than written out, so there’s nothing to import.

Yummly

Its pages fill in the recipe after they load, so Cookbo can’t see it yet.

Whisk, Paprika and AnyList

Recipes saved in other apps don’t have a public link to import from.

Site not working?

If a recipe site you use doesn’t import correctly, let us know. Most issues are quick to fix. Open a GitHub issue with the link, or email jbobrow+cookbo@gmail.com.

How importing works

Most recipe sites include a standard, behind-the-scenes description of each recipe so search engines can show it. Cookbo reads that. When a site doesn’t have one, Cookbo reads the page itself, and if that doesn’t work it still saves the title and photo for you to fill in.